So my bf's birthday is this week, and I usually make him a cake, but I can't think of what kind to make this year. He hates chocolate (crazy, right??), and in the last couple of years I have made him a coconut cake and the carrot cake from vwav. He loves tropical flavours, fruit, vanilla, etc. Help me ppk!

What about Hummingbird cake? It has fruit and nuts in it. There is a recipe for Hummingbird cupcakes (I have been eyeing this recipe for some time) in Quick & Easy Vegan Celebrations. You can easily make it into a cake.

What about Hummingbird cake? It has fruit and nuts in it. There is a recipe for Hummingbird cupcakes (I have been eyeing this recipe for some time) in Quick & Easy Vegan Celebrations. You can easily make it into a cake.

I unfortunately do not have that cookbook (one of the few I don't have I think haha)

VeganMeredith wrote:

As soon as the thread title, I was immediately going to suggest the raspberry blackout cake from VWAV, but I guess that won't do.

I love that cake!! Life would be so much easier if he liked chocolate as much as I do.

I don't mind chocolate but it's never what I want in a birthday cake. I usually make carrot cake, but banana with peanut butter frosting is really good or a chick o stick cake (vanilla with crushed chick o sticks and pb frosting). Vanilla cake with raspberry jam swirled in, filled with raspberry filling and covered in vanilla frosting is great as well and really any flavor jam would work - mango would be great. I made mango tango cupcakes once which would be great as a cake. I think it was coconut cake with mango curd/sauce inside and coconut frosting.

if you make the lemon coconut bundt cake from VCon (i think?), with lime instead of lemon, and make an appropriate icing, it makes a kickass birthday cake. hell, even without the icing, it's amazing, but birthday cake requires icing in my house.

Thank you for the ideas everyone! I think I am going to make the lemon coconut vcon cake, but in regular round cake pans rather than a bundt pan (because I don't have one), fill it with lemon curd and put either lemon or coconut cream cheese frosting on it. Yum!

torque wrote:

if you make the lemon coconut bundt cake from VCon (i think?), with lime instead of lemon, and make an appropriate icing, it makes a kickass birthday cake. hell, even without the icing, it's amazing, but birthday cake requires icing in my house.

The coconut lemon bundt cake in vcon is really great. I always get recipe requests when I make it for something.

This is what I was going to suggest. It's great with a semon icing, or you can bake it as a layer cake and frost it with butter cream. I think a raspberry butter cream would be great, or spread some raspberry jam in between the layers and then frost.

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acr wrote:

Rhizopus Oligosporus wrote:

It's great with a semon icing

i'm not sure that's something i'd serve to guests.

This is my favorite typo this month. Semon icing for everyone!

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